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A kiss. Which ran shivers through my core. Static along my skin. After such torment wait and angst. Those lips touched mine again and the passion of a love so strong so iron willed, burned hot in my chest. My eyes locked on his full of question, wonder, doubt, fear, excitement, and a lust for compan...

You are to me, untouchable
Pure in every sense
Sanctified and holy
A virtue
Something irreversible and prominent
Something that came and took from me all I held dear
Took everything that was before
Everything ever thought ever mattered
And up-heaved it
You took these things from me never t...

What would you do if I told you you were sunrise
That you were the dawn to my day
The ending of my cold night
The start of something new
Something promising
Something completely different than the last
What if I told you you were my light
My one life in life
The one thing keeping me breat...

How do you describe something that you know is real
Something that wasn't there to eyes
But to the heart was ever prevalent
That to the mind was shunned away but to the soul was it itself
How do you describe who you are
And how do you hide it
Why do you hide it?
And how do you describe ...

Why is it?
That you see the need to make me feel so small?
To take who I am and make it lesser than it is
I am great
Am I?
Are you?
In life this is not a question
It's a matter of fact
However senseless
My mind is better than you
My heart beats faster than you
My eyes see more t...

I see you there blue skies
Hiding behind coverage of clouds
Existing over everything we see
Everything we know
A blanket of understanding
For if the sky is a single being
Then must it not see everything?
Must it not see all?
Whether black or blue you sit
And let all flow around you
Every...

Sugar
You are so sweet so war
Temptation
You are a burden
A leech to me
Caring understanding
You are he are
The is for we
Senseless
Chaotic
This is life
Life is this
In words to describe emotion, feeling
The fabrics of being
The is to what is
But no
Gentle prudence
Locked away
...

Imagine a hidden sanctum
A world where everything you want is
Where the deepest desires of your heart are fulfilled
But in doing so none others are
In having what you crave most none others can or will
And they are simply slaves to your whim
Not you but your mind
Your thoughts and needs
Wh...

When something breaks what does that make it
Less than what it was
Something new
Is everything meant to be what it is
Or do things happen for the sake of such
When I am broken am I me
Or am I born anew
Am I the same but in need of fixing
When life itself fragments
Is it meant to be put toge...

It was as grand as grand can be
It was the world
It was trust
It was truth
It was to be put simply
Joy
Every laugh
Every moment
Every feeling
It was what is
And that in itself was amazing
But now
Now your actions and words are against me
Now your being is my hatred
You SAY and may be...

I walk
Along a road with nothing to my left
With nothing to my right
With just road stretched out before me
And road stretched out behind
At some points in my life the road itself stretches under me
And I have no choice but to go
But then at other times it doesn't
But I still find myse...

How do they usually start?
The emotions simply flow out from me
My advice
My hurt
My confusion
It pours straight out
And into words
And with them comes more of what put out than in
For with them comes the hope
The ever dangling dream
That they are the talent
They are the gift
One to cal...

Do you know what you manage to do to me?
And in only a second.
You make me sweat.
You give me joy.
You bring out my happiness.
You make me forget my fears
You make me love my world
If only for that moment
You make me forget my troubles
In only a second with you
You clear my mind
You make ...

And now it's finally time
To write the one last poem
To finally have enough
Enough truth to show
To show what I do feel
Nothing but what is
Just raw
Just fear
Fear for loss
Fear that we may succeed
Fear that you and I are
Are we
We did
And will try to
I want to
You do
We are no...

What do I want
Of course what won't be given
Or what isn't what I want
Because what I want is what they want
What it wants
What no one really does want
But what we are deluded into wanting
Want
What does it really mean
A false joy
An ever unsatisfied need?
Because you can want ...

Black red rose
So many words to say
So many hearts to prick
Too many clouds of dusk
Not enough light
Far too much beauty
Just the right amount of danger
A blackened stem
Ebony thorns
Starch and sturdy alongside
An eminent danger?
Or a potential muse?
A work of art?
Or a sad soul's...

Because the idea of that which a perfect being exists then so it must. God means such a perfect being. Therefore more than one God cannot logically exist in any fashion nor the concept of no God at all. More than one God would mean perfection over perfection; however, what is what is perfect cannot ...

Not willing to give in
To so much and everybody
To all the status of the world
Or to all the ideas and thoughts
Gravitating to all
But if you don't
How will you make sense
With fancy words?
I don't know
Finery can only get you so far
Beauty can only hold you for so long
Eventual...

The freedom of the mind
One of the greatest
Just like the galaxy
Out in every direction
Ever growing still
You don't need to go straight
Or back
Or up
Or down
And more
So much more
Again like another
Like life
So many allusions and illusions
So many barriers and bars
Is this a w...

For that one
The one and only
Not for attraction
And for sure not for show
Just for you
The only one who matters
Who wants for you and you them
The one person who you are you to
Who you never have to please
But do so by simply being happy
That you’d kill a man to see them in pain
That ...

What really is beauty
But the deep hues and coloration of a painted wonder
Or the pallet of words mashed upon paper outlining a clever thought
Is it the shape of a beautiful face
Or the rich crimson horizon of a summer sunset
The color and scent of the autumn leaves and rusting wind
Or the mil...

And so a shroud
Lays thick upon my neck
Crawling up my brow
And encasing my face
Slowly shutting me out from the world
Thick guttural darkness
Sealing me away
Creating a barrier and leaving
Leaving me alone
Surrounded by the blackness
Everywhere I go
In every room
Of every day
The b...

Not the thought of worse
Or a thought of better
Nothing of the sort
But much more simple
Much much more
To act and dam the consequence
Practicing freedom
The wind in my hair
Open pastures splayed out before me
No end
Simply
Steeples hills
Non-trodden paths
And pathless
Open and free
...